College Baseball Top-50 Weekend Scoreboard & Wrapup (April 5-7)

College baseball’s penchant for upsets was on full display over the past weekend, as action involving top-50 teams in the CB360 Composite National Rankings produced 17 upsets on three successive days (April 5-7). When all the dust had settled, 15 “underdogs” (unranked/lower-ranked) had won the 40 series involving top-50 teams and only nine “favorites” completed sweeps among those 40 series, including three straight LSU wins over Kentucky. front-page photo courtesy of LSU

Logan McAnallen (Michigan)

Three unranked/lower-ranked teams swept their series: Michigan vs. (41) Michigan State … South Florida vs. (44) Pittsburgh … and (23) North Carolina State vs. (21) Virginia Tech. Each of those series were played, at least partially, at home (Michigan played gm-2 at home but games 1 & 3 at MSU).

Grant Clyde (NC State)

The 15 series wins by underdogs also included two vs. top-10 teams, as (20) Arizona State beat visiting (8) Oregon in the first two games of that series while Duke won 2-of-3 vs. visiting (10) Georgia Tech. Some of the other noteworthy series upsets included: at Marshall vs. (22) Houston … at UC Santa Barbara vs. (24) Cal Poly … Auburn at (25) Texas A&M … and at Kansas vs. (27) Oklahoma State.

Here are the other weekend top-50 series that were won by the underdogs:
• Tennessee Tech at (29) Austin Peay
• at North Florida vs. (32) Mercer
• at Louisiana-Monroe vs. (33) Florida Atlantic• at Appalachian State vs. (40) Georgia Southern• at Towson vs. (43) William & Mary• and at Illinois State vs. (48) Missouri State

Michael Benjamin (Arizona State)

Only two teams – Auburn (at Texas A&M) and Tennessee Tech (at Austin Peay) – posted top-50 series upsets on the road (Michigan’s sweep of MSU included one home game).

Kendall Graveman (Mississippi State)

Eight of the series that played out over the weekend pitted fellow CB360 top-50 teams against each other, including the NC State sweep of Virginia Tech and ASU taking the series from visiting Oregon. Two SEC teams impressively swept fellow top-50 opponents, including (2) Vanderbilt winning all three games at (12) Ole Miss. (3) LSU pushed its win streak to 12 games and moved to 30-2, following a sweep of visiting (14) Kentucky.

DJ Stewart (Florida State)

The four other head-to-head battles on the top-50 slate ended as follows:
• (7) Florida State won 2-of-3 at (35) Miami
• (17) Arkansas won 2-of-3 at (37) Alabama (Thur.-Sat. series)
• (5) Oregon State won 2-of-3 at (13) UCLA
• and (19) Mississippi State took 2-of-3 from visiting (44) Florida

James Ramsay (South Florida)

In addition to the three series sweeps by underdogs, nine of the favorites won all three games, the aforementioned LSU and Vanderbilt, along with: at (1) North Carolina vs. Maryland … (4) Cal State Fullerton at UC Davis … (11) South Carolina at Tennessee … (16) Louisville at Cincinnati … (38) Clemson at Boston College … at (39) UC Irvine vs. Hawaii … and at (49) Arizona vs. California.

Aaron Bossi (Marshall)

Dartmouth (cb360 #45) had another so-so weekend in Ivy League play, splitting home doubleheaders vs. both Princeton and Cornell. (6) Virginia clinched its series at Wake Forest and went on to complete the sweep Monday night.

Judd Edwards (Louisiana-Monroe)

CB360 top-50 scoreboard pages are updated (time permitting) to include links for various live-coverage options, team game notes/weekly releases, and an assortment of postgame offerings (recaps from both teams, final stats in HTML & PDF format, photo galleries, video highlights, and postgame video/audio). Results for each game will include linescores (R-H-E), updated team won-loss records and status of each respective series (i.e. 1-1, sweep, etc.).

Tucker Tharp (Kansas)

Additional game info., photos from key games and postgame links are being added to this page.

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